stupidity

People are incredibly dumb.

Recently in Alpharetta, a African American man named Moses was accused of attacking a gas station clerk. 

Over the price of a phone charger. It even went to the point where Moses was waving a knife at the clerk. He faces a felony charge of aggravated assault. 

And that was pretty much it. I guess you can argue that there were racial tensions that came into play in this situation, but that's really nothing new. 

So, why does Moses matter then? It seems rather trivial to report on a type of story that we've heard dozens of times. But Moses' job is to prove that point exactly. One of the most important purposes of news reporting is to inform the masses of the mistakes of certain individuals so we can learn and improve our own society. It's like a "informing so history doesn't repeat itself" sort of tactic I guess. But ironically, we hear these same ridiculous stories over and over again on the news, as if we've learned nothing. History does repeat itself in that way I suppose. I wonder if it's because we don't want to learn, or if we just can't see. I hope it's the latter. Moses may be dumb. But so are you. 

The point is, we don't learn, not a single one of us. We continually make the same mistakes that were made hundreds of years ago by the ass-scratching cavemen. 

We're all dumb. You are. They are. I am.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/man-accused-attacking-gas-station-clerk/nSnnc/